Which THREE of the following issues relate to the Corporate Strategy of an organisation?

A Porter states that competitive advantage can be gained by following one of three generic strategies.
Place the appropriate generic strategy against each of the statements below.

The sales manager of an organisation has requested that you accept sales figures for the month, which contain misleading statements of sales, for the purpose of calculating sales team bonuses.
Which of the following fundamental ethical principles would this request breach?

ABC is an online bank which has just reported substantial trading losses. It has received advice from a leading business consultancy that it should implement the following two strategies:
1. Take advantage of its reputation and brand image by entering a new industry.
2. Update all its networks to fifth generation (5G) as soon as possible. Which TWO of the following strategies has ABC been advised to implement?

Information regarding two potential investments, that do not provide initial, valuable positive NPV opportunities, is outlined below:
* Y is a telecoms company, considering paying a premium for a Chinese telecoms company which has exclusive rights to service a large segment of the Chinese market, currently worth $123 billion in total The exclusive rights cover 25% of the market
* Z is a developed market retailer, considering paying a premium for an Indian retail company in the belief that the market is going to continue to be lucrative and grow by 8% per annum for the foreseeable future The current market is worth $600 billion and the company currently has 12% of the total market.
Which of the following statements regarding sustainable excess returns for the above real options is true1?